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FRIEZE TO EXPLORE 'RAVISHED ARMENIA' AT COLUMBIA
Armenian Weekly
Mon, Oct 31 2011
NEW YORK-On Thurs., Nov. 3, Dr. Donna-Lee Frieze of Deakin University
in Melbourne, Australia, will present a talk entitled, "Silence,
Memory, and Sacred Drama: 'Ravished Armenia' in the Memorialization
of the Armenian Genocide" at Columbia University. A screening of the
short surviving fragment of the film "Ravished Armenia" will be shown
in conjunction with the talk.
Frieze has taught a graduate unit on genocide studies for 10 years
at Deakin University. In 2009, she was joint consulting scholar for
a conference on Raphael Lemkin and sole consulting scholar for a
six-month exhibition on Lemkin, both at the Center for Jewish History
in New York. She is part of a research team publishing a history of
the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne and is the editor of Raphael
Lemkin's autobiography (Yale University Press, forthcoming).
The talk begins at 7:35 p.m. in Room 501 in Schermerhorn Hall at
Columbia University. It is presented by the Department of Middle
Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia, in
association with the Armenian Center at Columbia and the National
Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), in conjunction
with an ongoing Columbia graduate seminar, "Memories of the Armenian
Genocide: An Exploration through Memoir, Literature, and the Arts,"
taught by Armen T. Marsoobian, the Nikit and Eleanora Ordjanian
Visiting Professor of Armenian Literature at Columbia, and professor
and chair of philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University in
New Haven.
For more information about the events or seminar, email Marsoobian
at [email protected] or visit www.columbia.edu/cu/mesaas/.
Armenian Weekly
Mon, Oct 31 2011
NEW YORK-On Thurs., Nov. 3, Dr. Donna-Lee Frieze of Deakin University
in Melbourne, Australia, will present a talk entitled, "Silence,
Memory, and Sacred Drama: 'Ravished Armenia' in the Memorialization
of the Armenian Genocide" at Columbia University. A screening of the
short surviving fragment of the film "Ravished Armenia" will be shown
in conjunction with the talk.
Frieze has taught a graduate unit on genocide studies for 10 years
at Deakin University. In 2009, she was joint consulting scholar for
a conference on Raphael Lemkin and sole consulting scholar for a
six-month exhibition on Lemkin, both at the Center for Jewish History
in New York. She is part of a research team publishing a history of
the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne and is the editor of Raphael
Lemkin's autobiography (Yale University Press, forthcoming).
The talk begins at 7:35 p.m. in Room 501 in Schermerhorn Hall at
Columbia University. It is presented by the Department of Middle
Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia, in
association with the Armenian Center at Columbia and the National
Association for Armenian Studies and Research (NAASR), in conjunction
with an ongoing Columbia graduate seminar, "Memories of the Armenian
Genocide: An Exploration through Memoir, Literature, and the Arts,"
taught by Armen T. Marsoobian, the Nikit and Eleanora Ordjanian
Visiting Professor of Armenian Literature at Columbia, and professor
and chair of philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University in
New Haven.
For more information about the events or seminar, email Marsoobian
at [email protected] or visit www.columbia.edu/cu/mesaas/.